The migration from the current Fraunhofer-Publica repository to a Research Information Management System enables the system to extend the scope. It provides more entities, the linking and navigation among them, and the connectivity/interoperability to internal systems. We would like to focus on following customizations: -configurable workflow: how it’s been possible to use the dspace configurable workflow in order to meet needs of the Fraunhofer Publica project. -reserve a doi functionality: how an existing default dspace functionality (DOI reservation) can be customized and used in a different way -further Fraunhofer features eg. correction-request